How to display python code in a WordPress Post

As I plan to post a lot of code to my blog, in particular Python code, I wanted to find the best way of displaying code snippets with full syntax highlighting.

After some investigations I quickly worked out that the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin from Alex Mills was the way to go. To get this, download the plugin from the wp-admin console and activate. Then to embed some code in your post simply wrap your source code in a “python” shortcode tag. e.g.

[python]code goes here....[/python]

[php]code goes here....[/php]

Example – Highlighted Python Code

x = 1
if x == 1:
    # if x==1 then print msg
    print("Hello World")